Replacement 4 Incandesent

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A search was nada.
Don't want this to be political.
Still in shock, running out of the usual bulk double-life
I buy.
Love it that the Gvt. can put people out of work and extinguish an industry I've lived with all my life.

I'll probably have my last 100 watt bulb "bronzed"
and mounted.

I'm looking for the best alternative. I have horizontal
mounts, inverted and standard.

The Chinese early "coil" bulbs had a wierd "off-color"
slow glow. I've heard LED's are the way to go but $$$.

Any positive input, greatly appreciated!
 
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We are slowly replacing every bulb with LED. Big bucks but they last for years and energy cost is way down. Our new trailer is 100% LED. I know, I was kind of partial to the old GE tungsten bulbs myself.
 
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But do they put out any light?

Couple of years ago I saw a four-pack of 40-watt equivalent LEDs at Sams. I assumed, foolishly probably, that three 40s would produce at least the light of one 100. And since I had a four-hole chandelier on my ceiling fan, and only one 100-watt incandescent in it, this should work.

I have seven-foot ceilings in my house. With this light on the ceiling fan, I can't walk underneath it. No problem though, since it's in the bedroom.

I took out the one 100-watt bulb and put in three 40-watt-equivalent LEDs. At the ceiling fan, there was plenty of light. I could not see my bed, four feet below it. Not enough light got that far.

I took 'em back to Sams. So much for the great experiment.
 
I have begun to use the Cree bulbs found at Home Depot. They have a 40W, 60w, 100W equivalent in both a warm and cool color range. In the warm color I cannot tell that they are not incandescent. About $9 bucks a pop for the 60W eq.
 
I'm a bulb hoarder flipper gouger. I bought cases of em from Walmart before they stopped selling, didn't even have to wait in line. I've got enough 100, 60, 40, and 25 caliber, errr, watt bulbs to last well beyond my ability to put them in sockets!

rimfired said:
A search was nada.
Don't want this to be political.
Still in shock, running out of the usual bulk double-life
I buy.
Love it that the Gvt. can put people out of work and extinguish an industry I've lived with all my life.

I'll probably have my last 100 watt bulb "bronzed"
and mounted.

I'm looking for the best alternative. I have horizontal
mounts, inverted and standard.

The Chinese early "coil" bulbs had a wierd "off-color"
slow glow. I've heard LED's are the way to go but $$$.

Any positive input, greatly appreciated!
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We've been using CFL soft and have been quite pleased with them.

Recently got some for our canned flood lighting. EcoSmart soft R30 at HomeDept. 65W equivelent 14W power use. Cost $5ea compared to $20ea for LED. I won't live long enough to make up the price for a 6W difference in LED reduced power use. The light is near identical as far as I can tell to the incandcents we replaced. It does take 20-30 seconds for full brightness. If LED were close to same price I'd go that way, but the CFL is already reducing power use 80% so it didn't make sense to pay so much more for such little return. The LED are rated to last longer but in the next 7-10 years LED ought to be pretty cheap.

I tried doing research on lights by reading reviews on Amazon and other sites. I found most worthless because folks would be saying completely opposite things about he same bulb.
 
CFLs don't do well when the is a lot of short cycle use. That's why I bought a lot of incandescent. We were replacing CFLs after only a couple months in some places. As I said, I'll either die or LEDs will be cheap by the time my good ole filament bulbs run out!
 
Bought a bunch of LED's at Costco, 40's and 60's for $4-6 on sale. The 100's were around $15.
The LED's are much brighter, had to dim them down in the kitchen, and alot cooler. And the light is a more natural white than the usual yellowish tint from the incandies. You can grab a 100 that's been on for hours and it feels like it just came out of it's packaging.
I'm sold on them, and replacing the incandesants as they burn out.
I'm not a tree hugger and never thought I'd like them but I do.
 
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I do believe they can still be purchased on line. A while back I bought a few 100 watt and 75 watt bulbs from on of the on line companies. If you can't find anything drop me a pm and I'll see if I can help.

Now I'm all about saving a dollar or two. I think they all have their place. Love my incandescents in the winter, heat. Like them in the rooms where we go in and out in 2 or 3 minutes.

Those squirrelly doodle fluorescent things take 4 or 5 minutes to heat up and get a reasonable light output. By then we are in another room. Rooms where we leave the lights on for an extended time they work well.
I have recently moved into car painting and detailing, another hobby, and LED is the way to go. A good clean light and when working in an enclosed space those halogens can surely heat up your work space.
Like I said I think they all have their place in our lives.
I have 2 4 bulb 8' fluorescent light fixture in my garage and I don't know how you can beat that light output for the price.
 
klondike said:
I have begun to use the Cree bulbs found at Home Depot. They have a 40W, 60w, 100W equivalent in both a warm and cool color range. In the warm color I cannot tell that they are not incandescent. About $9 bucks a pop for the 60W eq.
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THIS^^^
In " DAYLIGHT"..not Cool white.. PLENTY of lumens
 
CFL or LED ....
Both of course.
Pair them up to cover immediate light needs with LED and CFL for brightness.
Nothing really replaces the incandescent
 
I hate the gov't telling what to do. And in many ways I am a Luddite.

BUT I was quickly liking CFL's for reasoning not yet mentioned, lots of light out put with low power draw for its own sake. Long story , but I have a situation requiring desk lamps for primary lighting . Without going to the expensive weird tiny bulbs , the ones using regular bulbs are rated for 25w or 40w , when it takes 60w for decent lighting. Just like +P in early Airweights , no catastrophic failures , but premature failure ( of lamp ). Now I can get 100w plus of light with less wear & tear than 25w incandescent.

At the time instead of building my own barn and paddock , my horses stayed at a farm 5 min away with very reasonable fees. But the barn had very antiquated wiring ( well maybe antique has a real meaning in electricty , but anyway the very earliest of the circut breaker era), and the circut breakers would constantly trip. Bingo , cfl to rescue again.

As they started becoming mainstream , the prices came down , and the they started becomong actually more compact. The top dollar name brand bulbs at Lowes, ect off the selection to get a designer temperature rating, or ultra compact. But for the most part the 4 packs from Wally World do the job at a good price.

Ok , there is a warmup. The high dollar name brand bulbs offer a fast startup . But with the Wally bulbs used indoors within 1-2sec usable light, and I'd have to stare at them on purpose with a stopwatch to even notice them coming the rest of way to 100% output.
 
Don't forget that you will need new dimmers when you put LED lights in place of incandescent bulbs. You will find an adjustable slider in the dimmer switch that must be set or bulb life will be compromised. So, when budgeting, don't forget the more expensive dimmers, too.
 
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